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AFA Chicago/Rosemont: McDonald v. UAL Case Records
Collection
Identifier: LR002386
Abstract
McDonald v. UAL was part of a series of legal cases involving United Air Lines (UAL), their former flight attendants, and the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA). The cases centered around flight attendants who lost their job due to UAL’s no-marriage policy of the 1950s and 1960s in which the company insisted that their female flight attendants remain unmarried. If a stewardess married she had to transfer to a ground job, was forced to resign, or was fired. Previous cases against UAL...
Dates:
1959 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1965 - 1984
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Association of Flight Attendants: Dallas Records
Collection
Identifier: LR000981
Abstract
The Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) formed in 1973 after the Stewards and Stewardesses Division of the Air Line Pilots Association broke to form an independent association. The records of the AFA-Dallas Collection relate primarily to organizational proceedings of the international union.
Dates:
1952 - 1980
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
Herman Benson Papers
Collection
Identifier: LP000090
Abstract
Correspondence, clippings, leaflets, and other files of Mr. Benson, a labor journalist who served as trade union editor of Labor Action and editor of Union Democracy in Action. The papers mainly concern intra-union disputes, particularly fights against corruption within union leadership, including the 1958-61 struggle in Local 88 of the Masters, Mates and Pilots, which led to the ouster and jailing of the International president; the 1949-50 factional dispute within the National Maritime Union;...
Dates:
1944 - 1974; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1968
Found in:
Walter P. Reuther Library
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